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Event Planner Challenges and Opportunities of the Next Decade

Maritz Global Events

Event registration platforms and management software hold a goldmine of information: names, business titles, personal/business email addresses, phone numbers, travel itineraries and reservations and more. With so many things to consider, site selection will challenge more and more and event planners. Enabling Movements.

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Recession-Proofing Your Job: Do You Know Your VORP?

Event Leadership Institute

If you’re asked to make a list of everything you do, chances are you’ll include functional tasks: budgeting, site selection, menu planning, contract review, etc. What you think about your value is irrelevant if the powers that be don’t know it, or worse, if they don’t agree with your assessment altogether.

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16 Event Resources to Plan Your Next Great Event

Capterra Event Management

Update: 7/19/2016: This piece has been updated to reflect comments and new software options since the article first went live. Aside from its event management software, Bizzabo has a blog that regularly posts useful, easy-to-digest pieces full of actionable takeaways. Its entries cover technology, social media, marketing, and more.

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The Ultimate Guide on How to Start Your Event Planning Business

Capterra Event Management

So after a period of searching, I discovered Capterra, and subsequently, an enjoyment in writing about event management software. Social Event Planning. Event Marketing and Social Media. Social Events. Site Selection. But my entire writing career was not without its steps, lessons, and hurdles.

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5 Online Event Planning Classes To Jumpstart Your Career

Capterra Event Management

So if you, like me, are an event professional looking to develop your event management skills, you might feel overwhelmed with the number of choices for education and training in logistics, management, design, personal relationships, and event management software. Event Marketing and Social Media. Site Selection.

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Top Event Agencies: The Ultimate Directory (2019)

Bizzabo

Their collaborative group creates print, outdoor, social media, production, experiential, websites, interactive, and large-scale events. Notable clients: Avast, Capcom, Docker, Google, GungHo, Jive Software, McKesson, Microsoft, Pure Storage, Square Enix, The Robin Hood Foundation. Kicking Cow. MAC Presents. New York, NY.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

Being strategic in your planning is useless if you don’t know how to operate the software you need to manage the process or report your successes to key stakeholders. Select crowd management techniques. I: Site management. The buildings, rooms and outdoor venues you select to house your meeting or event are known as sites.